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'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe

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Buttons840 ◴[10 May 25 17:11 UTC] No.43947204[source]▶
Interacting with a LLM (especially one running locally) can do something a therapist cannot--provide an honest interaction outside the capitalist framework. The AI has its limitations, but it is an entity just being itself doing the best it can, without expecting anything in return.
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1. tuyguntn ◴[10 May 25 17:14 UTC] No.43947233[source]▶
I think you are right, on one hand we have human beings with own emotions in life and based on their own emotions they might impact negatively others emotion

on the other hand probabilistic/non-deterministic model, which can give 5 different advises if you ask 5 times.

So who do you trust? Until determinicity of LLM models gets improved and we can debug/fix them while keeping their deterministic behavior intact with new fixes, I would rely on human therapists.